Mar 29, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ANTH 39800 - Peoples And Cultures Of Central Asia


General anthropological introduction to societies and cultures of contemporary Muslim successor states of former Soviet Central Asia, Western China (Xinjiang), and Iran and Afghanistan. Topics include ecology, ethnohistory, traditional subsistence strategies, family, kinship, gender, sociopolitical organization, impact of colonial rule of tsarist and Soviet Russia and China and development of modern nation-states in Iran and Afghanistan, dynamics of current conflicts and future prospects.

Preparation for Course
No special knowledge of the region on the part of students is presumed. However, a background in general anthropology would be helpful, but not essential.

Cr. 3.